Awards and Grants

Awards

  • 2023
    Senate Award for Research 2023 - Early Career Category
    The Senate Awards from the University of Colombo for Research to recognize and appreciate the contribution of
    academic staff.
  • 2022
    Faculty Awards for Research Excellence in 2022
    Recognizing and appreciating the research contribution of academics of the Faculty of Science at the University of Colombo.
  • 2022
    Senate Commendation for Research 2022 Award
    The Senate Awards from the University of Colombo for Research to recognize and appreciate the contribution of academic staff.
  • 2015
    Lifetime membership - Sigma Pi Sigma, the National Physics Honor Society
    A lifetime membership of Sigma Pi Sigma, the National Physics Honor Society awarded by Central Michigan University.

Grants

  • 2019
    Accepted User proposal
    “The Stable MAB and MBenes for spintronics and battery applications” – 750,000 computing hours awarded by Argonne Leadership Computing Facility at Argonne National Laboratory.
  • 2019
    Accepted User proposal
    “Tunable magnetism and transport properties of MXenes” – 546,000 computing hours awarded by The Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory.
  • 2011
    Doctoral Dissertation Assistantship (DDA)
    A grant awarded by North Dakota Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (ND EPSCoR).
  • 2018
    Accepted User proposal
    “Cavalently linked two-dimensional materials for ion-battery applications” – 546,000 computing hours awarded by The Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory.